March 7, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Django is a web framework but what does that actually mean? We discuss why web frameworks exist and what makes Django special.
Read MoreMarch 7, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, we added a feature flag system to College Conductor to control when users see new features. We used the excellent Django Waffle project.
Read MoreMarch 4, 2019 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
A couple weeks ago I ran a poll on Twitter asking people whether they’d ever used, or considered using, the contribute_to_class() method to write something that attaches to or hooks into a Django ORM model class, and if so what their thoughts were. There was also a “don’t know what that is” option, which won by a large margin, and I promised I’d provide an explanation. Unfortunately, that was around the time I suffered a kitchen … Read full entry
Read MoreMarch 4, 2019 » James Bennett » [Archived Version]
A couple weeks ago I ran a poll on Twitter asking people whether they’d ever used, or considered using, the contribute_to_class() method to write something that attaches to or hooks into a Django ORM model class, and if so what their thoughts were. There was also a “don’t know what that is” option, which won by a large margin, and I promised I’d provide an explanation. Unfortunately, that was around the time I suffered a kitchen … Read full entry
Read MoreMarch 2, 2019 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]
An article about me and my involvement in the Python community (mainly Django) as a Free Software developer, GNU/Linux user and tech conference speaker.
Read MoreFeb. 25, 2019 » /var/ - django » [Archived Version]
How to properly fix the errors you get when integrating async jobs (rq, celery etc) with your database in Djang
Read MoreFeb. 20, 2019 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]
Helm & RBAC: Polishing the Doorknob
Read MoreFeb. 19, 2019 » Instawork Engineering » [Archived Version]
At Instawork we have multiple different environments (test, development, staging, production) and we have quite a few different Django…Continue reading on Instawork Engineering »
Read MoreFeb. 7, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
In this episode, I walked through the deployment process to put the updated web application onto the live site. We took a slight detour to discuss Continuous Integration when it seemed like Vagrant was broken, but we got back on track and focused on Ansible and how it’s used to push code onto the internet.
Read MoreFeb. 6, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]
Here’s a recap of what happened on the Building SaaS with Python and Django stream this past month. If some of these topics interest you, check them out! If you want to join live in the future, I stream live on Twitch on Wednesdays at 9pm Eastern time in the U.S. at https://www.twitch.tv/mblayman. Completing a 3rd party integration We spent some weeks in December building a 3rd party integration into College Conductor (the SaaS project that the stream focuses on).
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